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Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (18 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The Organisation of Working Time Act makes provision for holiday entitlements in respect of most employees. Employees who have been denied their statutory holiday entitlement under the Act have a right of complaint to a Rights Commissioner. Holiday entitlements of employees in certain categories of employment are determined by the provisions contained in Employment Regulation Orders and...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 transposed into Irish law the EU Council Directive 93/104/EC of 22 November 1993 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time. One of the objectives of the Directive is the improvement of workers' safety, hygiene and health at work. The 1997 Act provides that an employee is entitled to a break of 15 minutes after working for more...

Written Answers — Bullying in the Workplace: Bullying in the Workplace (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 74 and 146 together. The Expert Advisory Group's Report on Workplace Bullying was launched and published by me on the 17th August 2005. An important recommendation contained in the Report was that a follow up survey on workplace bullying, similar to that commissioned for the 2001 Report, be conducted as soon as practicable to establish a baseline from which...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: Regulation 4 of the Safety Health at Welfare at Work (Miscellaneous Welfare Provisions) Regulations 1995 (S.I. No. 358 of 1995) states: "It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure that where any employed persons have in the course of their employment reasonable opportunities for sitting without detriment to their work or where a substantial proportion of any work done by employed...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The Labour Inspectorate of the Department is responsible for monitoring certain employment conditions for all categories of workers in Ireland, including immigrant workers. The Inspectorate operates without any differentiation with regard to worker nationality as statutory employment rights and protections apply to immigrant workers in exactly the same manner as they do to other workers. In...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005 has enhanced provisions on consultation between the employer and the employee on safety and health issues at the workplace. Employees are entitled to select a safety representative (or by agreement with the employer, more than one) to represent them in these consultations. The Act also contains provisions in relation to protection against...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The Labour Inspectorate has been following up this case since a series of interviews were undertaken with employees concerned on Friday, April 7th last. There is acknowledgement that certain arrears are due to employees. The company has produced revised contracts of employment to its employees and the Inspectorate is examining this material at present. While the Inspectorate has no function...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: I am aware through a variety of sources that there is particular concern with regard to the alleged practices of some employments in the mushroom industry. In this connection I have met with Officials from SIPTU and key representatives from the industry. In the latter case I was accompanied by my colleague, Mr. Brendan Smith, Minister for Food and Horticulture at the Department of...

Written Answers — Adult Literacy: Adult Literacy (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: Under the auspices of my Department, FÁS implements a number of initiatives to address the literacy needs of long term unemployed. ∙The Return to Education Programme responds to the individual needs of participants on the FAS Community Employment (CE) programme as they relate to literacy and numeracy development. This programme, developed by FAS in conjunction with the National Adult...

Written Answers — Employment Agencies: Employment Agencies (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: Under the Employment Agency Act 1971, a person carrying on the business of an employment agency must be the holder of a licence issued by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and must operate from a premises in Ireland that conforms with prescribed standards of accommodation, set out in Regulations made under the Act. As part of the Government's commitments under Sustaining...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: I regret that Directive 2003/18 was not transposed by the deadline of the 15 April 2006, and I am anxious that it would be transposed as soon as possible. I have not yet received a legislative proposal in this regard from the Health and Safety Authority, but I am advised that draft proposals for the Regulations were published on 9 May on the Authority's website, as part of the public...

Written Answers — National Disability Strategy: National Disability Strategy (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The Department has fully consulted with representative organisations for people with disabilities in the preparation of the Sectoral Plan for my Department. This Department participated in a comprehensive regional consultative process which was organised by the National Disability Authority in 2005. These conferences were attended by members of the general public, people with disabilities,...

Written Answers — County Enterprise Boards: County Enterprise Boards (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: County and City Development Boards have been established in each county to improve co-ordination and delivery of public services at local level and all 34 CDB Strategy Statements have been published. It is in such a forum that issues like long-term commuting or poorly paid local employment experienced by so called "ghost communities" or "ghost economies" would normally be addressed. In so far...

Written Answers — Flexible Work Practices: Flexible Work Practices (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The CSO Quarterly National Household Survey module dealing with Work Organisation and Working Time for the second Quarter of 2004 found that 68.6% of employees had a fixed start and finish time to their working day with 16.5% having the ability to vary their start or finish times. The CSO report does not deal with the reasons behind the percentage of workers not availing of flexible work...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: Since November 2005 the number of Labour Inspectors assigned and serving has been increased to thirty-one officers. The numbers of workplace inspections/visits undertaken by the Labour Inspectorate in respect of the years 2002 to 2005 and to date in 2006 are set out in the tabular statement below. The average time from a case file being opened to a satisfactory resolution during the period...

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The number of workplace inspections/visits undertaken by the Labour Inspectorate (during and after normal business hours) and prosecutions initiated in respect of the years 2002 to 2005 and to date in 2006 are set out in the tabular statement below. The primary function of the Labour Inspectorate is to seek compliance and rectification of any breaches identified, including payment of any...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: In response to the recommendations of the Employment Rights Review Group and following a process of extensive consultations with interested parties, a programme of action was agreed by Government to facilitate the simplification of procedures and provide greater ease of access for all users of the services of the employment rights bodies. Following the Government decision, an Employment...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The Health and Safety Authority published its Annual Report for 2005 and its Summary of Fatality, Injury and Illness Statistics 2004-2005 on Tuesday May 9th. Much of the details that the Deputy seeks can be found in the latter report which contains detailed breakdowns on Injuries, Illness and Fatalities of workers across economic sectors. Overall, there were 68 workplace deaths in 2003, 50 in...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: Under Section 20 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2006 every employer is required to prepare a written safety statement, identifying hazards and assessing the specific risks at that place of work, outlining protective and preventive measures taken and emergency plans. Enforcement action was taken by the Health & Safety Authority in 42% of inspections carried out in 2005. This...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2006)

Tony Killeen: The announcement of the appointment of the new Board of the Labour Relations Commission was made by me on 9th April last in advance of the first meeting of the new Board which took place the following day. The new Board took up office on 1st April 2006 and has been appointed for a term of 3 years. The two Ministerial appointments to the new Board were made on the basis of both individuals'...